Brown Sugar Sauce

1/2 cup brown sugar 1 or 2 tablespoons sugar

1 cup boiling water

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

1 tablespoon butter substitute

If a thin sauce is desired use one tablespoon flour, otherwise two. Mix the flour with the sugar. Slowly add the boiling water, stir-ring constantly to prevent lumping, cook until thickened, then pull to back of stove or place in double boiler and cook fifteen minutes. Add butter and vanilla just before serving.

Spice Sauce

To receipt for Brown Sugar Sauce add 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon cloves

Banana Sauce

To the Brown Sugar Sauce add one sliced banana as soon as sauce has thickened.

Brown Sugar Hard Sauce

1/2 brown sugar

1/4 cup butter substitute

2 tablespoons cream 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Cream butter, add sugar gradually, beating all the while. When butter and sugar are thoroughly creamed beat in cream a few drops at a time - if it is not added very slowly the mixture will curdle. Add vanilla with the cream. Better than plain hard sauce.

Orange Or Lemon Sauce

1/2 cup sugar

1 or 2 tablespoons flour

1 cup boiling water

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 tablespoon butter substitute follow directions tor Brown Sugar Sauce.

If Orange Sauce is desired, used orange juice instead of the lemon.

Fruit Sauce

1 cup sweetened juice 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1/2 cup fruit

1 tablespoon butter substitute 1/4 teaspoon flavoring

Moisten cornstarch with two tablespoons of the cold juice, heat remainder, and when boiling stir thickening into it. Cook until clear. Add fruit and pull to back of stove, where it will cook below the boiling point, during the main part of the meal. Just before serving add the butter substitute. With cherry juice use bananas and vanilla extract. With peach juice use the peaches and lemon extract. Good for Short Cakes.